[nfb-talk] Discrimination

[T. Joseph Carter]

Rail will not until after the administration gets high speed rail 
funding through congress.  Keeping the TSA out of rail travel is the 
nudge to encourage people that they would rather take the train than 
fly or take the bus and be subject to increasingly invasive security 
screenings.

Don’t you worry, you won’t be searched to take the train.  Not until 
high speed rail is a done deal.

None of that relates to blindness or the specific issues at hand, 
however.  There’s considerable difference from bad and invasive 
regulations being followed to the letter and the regulations being 
outright ignored where disability is concerned.

But nobody else seemed to be concerned, and I had to do the right 
thing myself if I could.  Still not even an acknowledgement of my 
complaint’s receipt.

Joseph - kf7qzc


On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 06:12:22PM -0400, bookwormahb at earthlink.net wrote:
>Larry,
>We all go through hastles and indignity at airports. I think the full 
>body scanners are
>a civil rights violation. We should never be virtually stripped 
>searched without a reason behind it.
>As for your comment about the bus or train, buses will soon have 
>airport style security and maybe rail someday too. Some places you 
>cannot get to on land via rail as well.
>
>I think TSA need training in manners and their own regulations; this 
>might minimize some distress among passengers.
>Ashley
>
>-----Original Message----- From: Larry D. Keeler
>Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 7:39 AM
>To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>Subject: [nfb-talk] Discrimination
>
>Dignity certainly is an issue!  I think that dignity is a relative 
>term however.  Most americans whether blind or not, suffer some 
>indignity at airports.  If you don't want to suffer indignities at 
>the airport, then the train or bus should suffice.  I aggree with you 
>Brian though about hired assistance.  Many of them are untraind and 
>understand very little english.
>Intelligence is always claimed but rarely proven!
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